Anti-Helicobacter pylori activity and essential oil composition of Thymus caramanicus from Iran

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1139-1142

  Eftekhar, Fereshteh ^a   Nariman, Farahnaz ^b   Yousefzadi, Morteza ^c   Hadian, Javad ^a   Ebrahimi, Samad Nejad ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anti Helicobacter pylori activity; Essential oil composition; Thymus caramanicus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BORNEOL; CARVACROL; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; FURAZOLIDONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PARA CYMENE; TERPINENE; TETRACYCLINE; THYMOL; THYMUS CARAMANICUS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4-CYMENE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BORNANE DERIVATIVE; GAMMA-TERPINENE; ISOBORNEOL; TERPENE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANGIOSPERM; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; DISTILLATION; FLOWERING; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN VITRO STUDY; IRAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT YIELD; THYMUS CARAMANICUS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; THYME;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORNANES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; THYMOL; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 73949121329     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400825     Document Type: Article

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